Congenital Malaria due to Plasmodium Vivax Infection in a Neonate

Although malaria is endemic in India, congenital malaria is not very common. Congenital malaria is a very rare condition in both endemic and nonendemic areas. We report a case of congenital malaria in a six-day-old neonate with fever and splenomegaly. The diagnosis was picked up accidentally on a pe...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Ravi, Rajwaniya, Dinesh, Agrawal, Priti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27651968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1929046
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description Although malaria is endemic in India, congenital malaria is not very common. Congenital malaria is a very rare condition in both endemic and nonendemic areas. We report a case of congenital malaria in a six-day-old neonate with fever and splenomegaly. The diagnosis was picked up accidentally on a peripheral smear examination. Congenital malaria should be kept as differential diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Timely detection of this condition could lead to early diagnosis and treatment, thereby preventing neonatal mortality.
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spelling pubmed-50199062016-09-20 Congenital Malaria due to Plasmodium Vivax Infection in a Neonate Bhatia, Ravi Rajwaniya, Dinesh Agrawal, Priti Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Although malaria is endemic in India, congenital malaria is not very common. Congenital malaria is a very rare condition in both endemic and nonendemic areas. We report a case of congenital malaria in a six-day-old neonate with fever and splenomegaly. The diagnosis was picked up accidentally on a peripheral smear examination. Congenital malaria should be kept as differential diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Timely detection of this condition could lead to early diagnosis and treatment, thereby preventing neonatal mortality. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5019906/ /pubmed/27651968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1929046 Text en Copyright © 2016 Ravi Bhatia et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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